Alana Jones-Mann is a designer and stylist from Los Angeles who makes amazing cakes and decorates them with buttercream. Their designs resemble vibrant rugs and blankets and often feature a retro aesthetic that was popular in the 1970s.
“I don’t have a plan or anything when I start,” the artist told LA Times in a 2019 interview. “What’s weird about the shag cakes is I think a lot of people think I purposely made it to look like a shag carpet. And that was never the plan. Other people started calling them that.”
She went with it and embraced her new reputation in LA’s hip cake market. The design of her cakes comes from her obsession with fashion, design, and music from the ‘60s and the ‘70s. The cakes are a relatively new step in her career and a way she can combine baking with art. She previously found it challenging to combine these two things but we now see that she had nothing to fear!
You can check out more of Jones-Mann’s art on her Instagram page where she currently has 172k followers. We love her bright geometric designs but also the black-and-white cakes and floral patterns she makes with ease.
